1657 in France
# 1657 in France

Events from the year 1657 in France

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Louis XIV

## Events

* March – The Treaty of Paris allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain.
* The 54th Infantry Regiment was formed.

## Births

* 11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer (d. 1757)
* 25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal (d. 1737)
* 16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1719)
* 24 July – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles, hydrographer (d. 1710)
* 7 August – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Huguenot historian, lexicographer and journal editor (d. 1710)
* 9 August – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, sculptor (d. 1733)
* 15 December – Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist (d. 1726)

### Full date missing

* Jean-François de Chamillart, churchman (d. 1714)
* Anne Ferrand, writer (d. 1740)
* Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer (d. 1704)
* Jean-Baptiste Nolin, cartographer and engraver (d. 1708)
* Jacques Savary des Brûlons, lexicographer (d. 1716)
* Sébastien Truchet, Dominican priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1729)

## Deaths

* 19 February – Jean Riolan the Younger, anatomist (b. 1577 or 1580)
* 24 March – Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, count and marshal (b. 1605)
* 24 December – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, poet (b. 1607)

### Full date missing

* Pompone de Bellièvre, magistrate, ambassador and statesman (b. 1606)
* Françoise de Lansac, courtier (b. 1582)
